fencer: what do you think about distinct list of players per game to be added?

Walter Montego: Two good posts with great ideas ... I agree wholeheartedly.

Mr. Shumway: See, I simply updated your suggestion and there it is. :)

Would be nice to see a list of all on-going (and completed) fellowship challenge tournaments - that is in one list like the "Tournaments" link, and not by going through each fellowship.

wekke: At the moment I think you have to be a manager to become captain. I agree that this is just a matter of taste - but with the solution of checkboxes this all wouldn't be a problem!

Fencer: I like this idea I just made up for the managers in fellowship. I think it'd be one way to fix the out of control moderation on some of the boards too. The main moderator could have a check list like this too. If he has other moderators on board with him he could choose which reponsibilties to delegate.

For this co-moderator it requires my approval to:

[] Ban someone
[] Hide someone
[] Edit a post
[] Hide a post
[] Delete a post
[] Add a moderator
[]....

The main moderator could leave the checkmarks blank for full reponsiblity and check those he wants to retain exclusive control over.

And you need to make it so an individual post may be hiden without hiding everything else that this person has posted.

Fencer: Aside from creating more ranks, you could give the Big Boss a check list of powers and responsibilities for each manager.

Also, with this structure in place it would be easier for you(site owner) to add or delete features or change them without having to create more ranks.

For this manager, allow him or her to:
[] Create tournaments
[] Offer fellowship invitations
[] Message all fellowship members
[] Hide a member
[] Create teams
[] Be a captian
[] .....

Doing it this way would allow the Big Boss to keep all duties if he chooses, or to delegate them to the various members of the fellowship. If a manager decides to leave the fellowship it shouldn't be to disruptive to adjust some of the other duties either.

Mr. Shumway: I think every member can become a team captain already...In my opinion the Big boss should have the final say in making captains, but that's just my feeling...I'm from Belgium, I compromize easily.

wekke: The main question was if from then on every member would be able to become a team captain, without a special rank. And I think, since Little and Big Boss would have nearly the same rights, why not let both of them set the captain? Some Big Boss might not care about specific teams ;)

Mr. Shumway: Chosen by the big boss of course...After all he is the owner...

And who is going to be able to be a team captain? Every member? And the captains are then chosen by Big or Little Boss?

*writing down*

BIG BAD WOLF: ok, sounds good, took me too ling writing this ;)

Fencer: Like Big Bad Wolfs idea. :)
He has been doing some thinking already I guess.

Fencer: There are basically two functions: Set up tournaments and ponds, and be a team captain as being a boardmod doesn't require any further rank. why not introduce a fellowship-manager and a team-manager. this team manager has the same rights as todays manager, i.e. becoming a captain of a certain team and managing it. and the fellowship manager may set up tournaments and ponds.
It would also be a possibility to introduce a third rank, something like a board manager, who can make new boards, delete boards, and announce moderators for boards.

BIG BAD WOLF: This sounds perfect...Takes a load of the work from the Big Boss.

Fencer:

Tournament Mgr (manage tournaments [ponds & stairs] - create, etc..)

User Mgr (Can also invite, accept - but not remove members from fellowship)

Little Boss (basicly all same powers of BIG BOSS except they can not delete fellowship (or remove BIG BOSS)

wekke: It might be better to create more different ranks, associated with different functions. Any ideas?

I think it might be a good idea to give more power to managers in the fellowships...

With the new tournaments and stuff, it might be helpfull if they are able to set up tourneys...

BIG BAD WOLF: Now you can (send a message to all team members).

playBunny: Cool projector ... does it work with powerpoint?

Spherons and Torussians: You've all got it wrong. The four edges of the board actually meet at a singularity. The shape of the playing surface is akin to a tear drop or a high altitude weather balloon when it's at low altitude, but Fencer, through some clever maths, has a projection that makes the board look square on the page.

Sphere Battleboats, please

KotDB: ahaha maybe
Fencer will use the toothpick but i do no think will make u black but he will ... lol :)

BIG BAD WOLF: Suppose I like to use the word "euros" instead of "toothpicks". Does that mean I can send Fencer 280 toothpicks and become a Brain Rook for life?

KotDB: Yes, that discussion has already happened - and Fencer likes to use the word "Sphere" instead of "torus", which is why I suggested the name "Sphere PahTum"

BIG BAD WOLF: Surely the ancient Assyrians must have known the difference between a sphere and a torus.

The 11th most popular game (according to current games) needs a variant.

How about: Sphere PahTum

Like Sphere Froglet, the sides connect, and the top/bottom connect. (With the max of 10 in a row - and not create a long loop of more in a row over and over and over again if you fill up a complete row/column)

I like the moderators. Sometimes I feel they do too much, sometimes I feel they don't do enough. But, hey! can't expect perfection.

However, everytime (well, lots of times) when someone gets moderated we all have to listen to them whine on either the "Members Only", "general Chat", of "Brainking" board. MOST of us don't care!

Can there be a board put up to allow the moderated person to post their grievence (with details)? Make all the GLOBs moderators of that board. That way someone that feels slighted, has a place to go for an appeal. Those that don't want to see it don't need to. The GLOBs would still be able to moderate and or ban troublesome people from that board.

Eriisa: I´ll drink to anything... After all is almost Friday night...

Fencer: New server! Cool! As always...Love the site, thanks!

Fencer: I'll drink to that!

Summertop: At least that is a good thing that I have to go through each person individually to send a message to - it also allows me to look at "last login date"

On a very positive note, it looks like that any pawns who are members of your fellowship no longer show up in the teams. That is good because I did not really want to through pawns out in case they renew their membership.

5) Nice to have a new server to cover this additional load.

BIG BAD WOLF: OOh, yeah...Plus:

4: Nice to see the last time they access brainkink. don't want someone on your team that hasn't been on BK for months.

Summertop: Plus in addition to that:

3. It would also be nice to know when someone new joins the team. I'm currently tryint to figure out what all my team players like so I do not end up picking someone who really does not want to play in a certain type of game - and if someone new joins after this point, I might miss them completly when choosing teams.

Summertop: I second that..... (As I get ready to go through and send each team player a PM)

In the fellowships, where it shows the team members...

1. It would be nice to have a link by each team member's name to allow an easy way to send them a PM.

2. It would be nice to have another link that will send a PM to ALL team members.

That way the captain could ask the team questions about challenging another fellowship's team to a tournamnent. Individual players could announce to the team the status of their games.

playBunny: Or maybe you put them on, then your opponent ha steh option to remove them one by one ...... Then you put them back again :-)

playBunny: You could have a reverse froglet/solitaire, where you put them back on and it could be called tadpole. LOL

Eriisa: . That could be a new variant, Froglet Patience.

رضا: Even better, combine the Battle boats theme and take turns placing one froggie at the time!



no, I am NOT serious.

رضا: Just a thought... What about having an option of using color numbers besides frogs...

Daniel Snyder: With my dial up connection it'll take me, saaaaaay, a week?

Let the players put the frogs on... An idea...

eagle eye: If you click on the games on that statistics page, it shows you all the games currently running.

grenv: I never thought of that . . . that makes the whole thing more complicated.

ColonelCrockett: Also, the country I put up is my country of origin, not the country I presently live.

eagle eye: actually the number in a specific country is unimportant unless you compare it with the countries population, the % of population with internet access, and the number of population old enough to move a mouse . . . I don't see a real reason to know how many players from a specific country there are playing a specific game. (half the time players forget to input their country anyway)

On 'Statistics' page in addition of all listed running games, I'd like to see a list of players involved in each type of game.

Also number of players per country for each game would be nice. It will give an indication of how popular each given game in given country.

alanback: we could call it brainzee